priated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: * OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral. tation. For inland transportation by star routes, including Transportemporary service to newly established offices, seven Star routes. million one hundred and seventy thousand dollars: * * Provided, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable without advertising therefor. (Mail bags; purchase of material and manufacture of equipment. See p. 392.) Alaska emer. gency service. CHAP. 256.—An Act Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. May 26, 1910. [H. R. 18162.] [Public, No. 190.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, Department ap Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 1, p. 416. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Agricultural That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appro- propriations. priated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: General ex penses. Restricted United States. to GENERAL EXPENSES, FOREST SERVICE: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investigations and the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided, That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed five hundred dollars; to pay all ings. expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve of national the national forests; to ascertain the natural conditions forests. Provisos. of build Proof Protection, etc., of Exception. Sales of timber. upon and utilize the national forests; and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the national forests, to be exported from district of Alaska in which said forests are respectively situated: National for * * * * * * * the For salaries and field and station expenses necessary Maintenance, for the use, maintenance, and protection of the national ests. etc. Chugach, Alaska. forests: Chugach National Forest, Alaska, seventeen thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars; * * * Tongass, Alaska. Tongass National Forest, Alaska, eight thousand three hundred dollars; (Maintenance of station in Alaska and sale of products therefrom. See p. 393.) June 7, 1910. [S. 621.] [Public, No. 198.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 459. Time extended. CHAP. 265,-An Act Extending the time in which to file adverse claims and institute adverse suits against mineral entries in the district of Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Public lands of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for filling adverse in the district of Alaska adverse claims authorized and mineral claims, provided for in sections twenty-three hundred and R. S., secs. 2325, twenty-five and twenty-three hundred and twenty-six, 2326, pp. 426, 427. United States Revised Statutes, may be filed at any time etc., in Alaska. during the sixty days period of publication or within eight months thereafter, and the adverse suits authorized and provided for in section twenty-three hundred and twenty-six, United States Revised Statutes, may be instituted at any time within sixty days after the filing of said claims in the local land office. June 7, 1910. [8. 7056.] [Public, No. 199.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 459. Time extended CHAP. 266.-An Act To extend the time for construction and beginning of construction of its line of railway in Alaska by the Alaska Short Line Railway and Navigation Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Alaska. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for construction in consideration of the construction of the Alaska Short of Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska by the Alaska Short Line Railway and Navigation Company being actually commenced prior to June first, nineteen hundred and eleven, the time for the completion of the survey and construction of said Line Railroad in. Provisos. maps railroad be, and the same is hereby, extended to a period of three years from said first day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred and eleven: Provided. That said company shall file with the Secretary of the Interior maps etc. of definite location of its line of road prior to the beginning of the construction of any twenty-mile section thereof, the same to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as is now required by the Act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, providing for right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska: Provided further, That if actual construction of the road be not Rights prior to commenced within one year after June first, nineteen hundred and ten, the right hereby granted shall not be so construed as to interfere with the attachment of other rights prior to the commencement of such construction. CHAP. 297.—An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. construction. June 17, 1910. [H. R. 22643.] [Public, No. 213.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 468. ecutive and judi Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, Legislative, exappropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not cial expenses apotherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the propriations. service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (Pay of Delegate from Alaska, clerk hire, and stationery. See p. 398.) * GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. DISTRICT OF ALASKA: Governor, seven thousand dollars; four judges, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each; four attorneys, at five thousand dollars each; four marshals, at four thousand dollars each; four clerks, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, eightyseven thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed two thousand dollars; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; rent of office and quarters in Juneau, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, five thousand five hundred dollars. Alaska. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. * SURVEYORS-GENERAL AND THEIR CLERKS. For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the District of Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. * June 17, 1910. CHAP. 301.-An Act To authorize additional aids to navigation [H. R. 24877.] in the Light-House Establishment, and to provide for a Bureau of [Public No. 217.] Light-Houses in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and for 36 Stat. L., pt. other purposes. 1. p, 534. gation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Aids to navi- That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish and provide the following additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, under the Department of Commerce and Labor, in accordance with the respective limits of cost hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded: Alaskan waters. in. Additional aids to navigation in Alaskan waters, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars. June 22 1910. [H. R. 13907.1 [Public, No. 227. 36 Stat. L., pt. 1. p. 583. June 24, 1910. [H. R. 23311.] ___ ĮPublic, No. 261.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 605. June 25, 1910. [H. R. 20686.] [Public, No. 264.] 36 Stat. L., pt. 1, p. 630. Rivers and har bors appropriations. CHAP. 318.—An Act To provide for agricultural entries on coal lands. (It is stated in this act that Alaska is excluded from its provisions.) CHAP. 378.—An Act Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. (Repairs of Marine Barracks at Sitka, Alaska. See p. 54.) CHAP. 382.-An Act Making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: * * * * * Saint Michael Improving Saint Michael Canal, Alaska: Completing canal, Alaska. mprovement in accordance with the report submitted in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and sixteen, Sixty-first Congress, second session, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. * * * * * CHAP. 383.—An Act To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes, June 25, 1910. 36 Stat. L., pt. ings, omnibus Limits of cost ized. and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury of the United, Public buildStates to give effect to and execute the provisions of act. existing legislation authorizing the acquisition of land increased for sites or the enlargement thereof, and the erection, contracts authorenlargement, extension, remodeling, or repair of public buildings in the several cities hereinafter enumerated, the limit of cost heretofore fixed by Congress therefor be, and the same is hereby, increased, respectively, as follows, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the completion of each of said buildings within its respective limit of cost, including site: * * * * * SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and to contract for the erection and completion thereon of a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices in each of the cities enumerated in this section, within its respective limit of cost, including site, hereby fixed: United States post-office and custom-house at Juneau, June a u Alaska, two hundred thousand dollars. Alaska. building, etc. United States territorial executive mansion, furnish- Territorial ings, library, and museum at Juneau, Alaska, forty thousand dollars. CHAP. 384.—An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910. [Public, No. 266.] 1, p. 703. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, 36 Stat. L., pt. of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sundry civil That the following sums be, and the same are hereby priations. expenses appro |